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核心畫面

Both uses come from the verb mount, and the verb holds two everyday actions that are easy to see at once: something goes up, and something gets put up onto something else. Follow the first action and you watch a pile grow — bills, pressure, criticism, one more added and then one more — and that is the adjective. Follow the second and you end up looking at whatever the thing was put onto: the rubber block under an engine, the plate a camera screws into — and that is the noun. One word, two directions out of the same small movement upward.

這兩個用法都可以想成從動詞 mount 長出來。mount 裡有兩個很好想像的動作：東西往上去，以及東西被架到別的東…更多收起這兩個用法都可以想成從動詞 mount 長出來。mount 裡有兩個很好想像的動作：東西往上去，以及東西被架到別的東西上面。跟著第一個動作走，你看到的是一堆東西越疊越高——帳單、壓力、批評，加了一筆又一筆——那就是形容詞的用法。跟著第二個動作走，你的視線會落在「被架在什麼上面」的那個東西：引擎底下那塊橡膠墊、相機鎖上去的那片金屬板——那就是名詞的用法。同一個字，從同一個往上的小動作分成兩條路。

From the word’s history

Both entries are mount plus the ending -ing, so the difference is not in the parts but in which action of mount the ending caught.

兩個用法都是 mount 加上 -ing。差別不在組成，而在 -ing 抓住的是 mount 的哪一個動作：是「往上加」，還是「架上去」。

Wiktionary entries for mounting (packet source_refs kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:905399258:4254 and :905404593:2571): From mount + -ing.

Two branches

一直往上加

取 mount 的「往上」那個動作，看的是數量還在增加這件事。

adjective · B2

Getting greater little by little, and still going up. It is used in front of a noun, and most often about things that cause worry: pressure, debts, costs, criticism, or evidence that something is true.

不斷增加的

被架上去時靠的那個東西

取 mount 的「架上去」那個動作，但看的不是動作，而是底下那個承接的零件。

noun · C1

A part that other things, especially parts of a machine, are fixed onto so that they stay in place.

底座；固定座；固定架

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

mountingadj/ˈmaʊntɪŋ/

  • 1

    That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.

    • mounting debts
    • steadily mounting losses

mountingnoun/ˈmaʊntɪŋ/

  • 1

    Something mounted to support something; an attachment.

    • The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
    • That particular plane must have hit an obstruction that ripped its undercarriage right off its mountings, to leave it suspended beneath.
  • 2

    The act of one who mounts.

    • The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。